Lord Penzance, author of A Judicial Summing Up: the Bacon-Shakespeare Controversy

-Lord Penzance, author of A Judicial Summing Up:  the Bacon-Shakespeare Controversy, London, Low, Marston, 1902.  (Twain used much of pp. 83-5 in his 1909 Is Shakespeare Dead?)  The following are extracts, beginning with comments on Lord Bacon:

 

                               
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A. A. Watts in his "Shakespeare the Lawyer; Bacon the Poet" which is at pp. 79-88 of June 1887 Journal of the Bacon Society, covered legal points similar to what Penzance did later.  See https://books.google.com/books?id=MBssAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=donnelly's+cipher+theobald&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUh9CM7tnKAhVU8mMKHUHnDwoQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=donnelly's%20cipher%20theobald&f=false
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The extraordinary affinity between Marlowe and Shakespeare has been repeatedly noticed by critics and historians of the Elizabethan drama.   -R. M. Theobald:  "Marlowe's Edward II" at pp. 226-266 of:
https://books.google.com/books?id=vVQuAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA112&lpg=PA112&dq=bacon+society+publications&source=bl&ots=ZtMJGV5_t8&sig=fR4U8p3mnsQXv88o0n4yneF7MZA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjNk5Sg59nKAhVC0GMKHU0pBfUQ6AEIOjAE#v=onepage&q=bacon%20society%20publications&f=false
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classical literature allusions in Shakespeare show a very learned man--Theobald:  Shakespeare Studies in Baconian Light, 1891, pp. 294-317
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